#! /usr/bin/perl -w # generate_history.pl -- flatten release notes for use as HISTORY file # # Usage: generate_history.pl srcdir release.sgml >output.sgml # # The main point of this script is to strip out references, which # generally point into the rest of the documentation and so can't be used # in a standalone build of the release notes. To make sure this is done # everywhere, we have to fold in the sub-files of the release notes. # # doc/src/sgml/generate_history.pl use strict; my $srcdir = shift; die "$0: missing required argument: srcdir\n" if !defined($srcdir); my $infile = shift; die "$0: missing required argument: inputfile\n" if !defined($infile); # Emit DOCTYPE header so that the output is a self-contained SGML document print "\n"; process_file($infile); exit 0; sub process_file { my $filename = shift; local *FILE; # need a local filehandle so we can recurse my $f = $srcdir . '/' . $filename; open(FILE, $f) || die "could not read $f: $!\n"; while () { # Recursively expand sub-files of the release notes if (m/^&(release-.*);$/) { process_file($1 . ".sgml"); next; } # Remove tags, which might span multiple lines while (m/]*>//) { next; } # incomplete tag, so slurp another line $_ .= ; } # Remove too s|||g; print; } close(FILE); }